Improvement in combined mowins-machine and hat-tedder



J. H. DATER.

Combined Mowing Machine and Hay Tedder. v

No. 100,124. Patented Feb. 22, 1870.

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ifiaitrd fitters J. H. DATER, OF EAGLE MILLS, NEW. YORK.

- Letters Patent No. 100,124, dateiFebruary 22, 1870.

The schedule referred to'iu these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it mag concern: a

Be it known that I, J. H. DATER, of Eagle Mills, in' the county ot'R-ensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Combined Mowing- Maehine and Hay-Spreader; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 representsa vertical longitudinal section of my combined mowing-machine and hay-spreader.

Figure 2 is a plan or top view of the same. Similar letters of reference indicate correspomling lhis invention relates to an improvement of mowing-machines, whereby they are made to spread and disturb the grass mowed by them.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts. as will be hereinafter fully de-' scribed.

A, in the drawing, represents the frame of a mowing-machine of suitable construction.

B B are the wheels by which the same is supported.

. O is the shaft by which motion is imparted to. the pitma-n-wheel a, or its equivalent, for moving the cutter-bar. V

ilo the rear of the frame A is pivoted, by a separate pin, or by the shaft 0, or otherwise, a frame, 1), which contains the hay-spreading apparatus.

The said apparatus consists either of a revolving crank-shaft, E, and swinging arms F, which have the tines G, or of other suitable devices adapted to the successful spreading of the hay which has been cut by the mowing-machine.

The spreading machinery is set in motion by a. shaft, H, or belt which is moved-by the apparatus on the mowing-machine; such shaft or belt can be thrown out of gear whenever desired.

The frame D of the hay-spreader is supported by a caster-wheel, I, which allows it to, follow the motion of the front frame. The frame 1) can be swung hp as indicated by dotted lilies in fig. 1-, for'the purpose of raising the spreader off the ground.

For this purpose a lever, J, is provided on the frame D, and can be locked to the frame A.

The In y-"spreader can, Whenever desired, be entirely removed from the mowing-machine to let each appatns, or anyone, be used separately.

Having thus described my invention,

1 claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. The driving-shaft C of the cutter-bar, and a suitable frame I), in combination with the shaft- H, crankshaft E, and intermediate gearing, all arranged as described, on a mower.

2. A swinging frame 1), spreader 1 G, and the shafts and gear-wheels above described, all arranged as and for the purpose specified.

' J. H. DATER.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, ALEX. 'F. ROBERTS. 

